Dhaka electrocution
Child dies of electrocution in capital
A child was electrocuted on Thursday afternoon while playing amid rain in Tejgaon area in the capital.
The deceased was identified as Sajal Islam Alif, 10.
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“I went to the roof and saw him lying unconscious and immediately rushed him to a local medical facility first and then to DMCH where doctors declared him dead,” Yasin Hossain, uncle of the child, told UNB.
He said Sajal might have been electrocuted after touching a pipe which somehow was connected with an electric wire.
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Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost, said the body has been kept at the morgue of the hospital for autopsy.
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